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I just uploaded the first public alpha release, FreelanceStation Alpha 8. It is still rough on some edges, lacks invoice generation and payment handling, transactions, reports and more charts. I’m using this release as the starting point to add further

For the past two months I’ve been busy finishing some core features to have an Alpha version ready for public release. I would really love to start the new year with a release, and I’m possibly going to do it!

Today it’s been 15 months of slow development. I’ve been busy with other things, mostly life and family, so I couldn’t get much work done. Mojave was released last month and so I upgraded my Mac. I had tested previously

Michael Tsai posted two links with different authors opinions on the subject. The HN conversation that ensues from the original link, by Seth Godin, is highly interesting for the myriad of points of view. Let me share mine. I grew

Last progress update was two months ago. I have already implemented estimate editing and basic workflow, template previewing and sending of estimates by email or printing. I haven’t designed an actual template yet, it’s mostly a dummy for testing purposes,

I just deleted my personal Facebook account, in light of the already well-known data leak. I joined for the first time about 7 years ago, coerced by my coworkers, and had closed it at least once. It looks like it

It’s been two months since the last update. I went on vacations in January and came back this week, so sadly I wasn’t able to do any work for nearly a month. I almost finished UI for creating estimates and

HTML5 and Javascript Everywhere There is an ongoing and absurd trend from that ever-increasing group of developers collectively known as “Web Developers” to spill their infestations into our desktops, of which Electron is the main vector. I get the web

Desktop Application Development Takes Time I have been very busy for the past two months, working relentlessly to shape “The Application” and have it finished before July 2018. Development has been slow but steady. I initially projected a very rough

NSTokenField is particularly tricky to use with Core Data bindings. I wanted to model a to-many relationship between an object (specifically Client, Project, etc.) and multiple Tags. The user would select e.g. a client from a table view, and in